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Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act as well as sim­i­lar state leg­is­la­tion require that elec­tron­ic doc­u­ments pro­duced by dif­fer­ent enti­ties—both gov­ern­ment agen­cies and non-government enti­ties—include addi­tion­al fea­tures to make those elec­tron­ic doc­u­ments equal­ly use­able by sight­ed and visually-impaired peo­ple and by hear­ing and deaf peo­ple. In some sec­tors, com­pli­ance is manda­to­ry under penal­ty of hefty fines. Even those enti­ties not cur­rent­ly required by Section 508 to pro­duce ful­ly acces­si­ble elec­tron­ic doc­u­ments in PDF doc­u­ments should vol­un­tar­i­ly com­ply to ensure that their doc­u­ments are use­able by the more than 10 mil­lion hearing-impaired and 25 mil­lion blind Americans.

Making a PDF acces­si­ble is a respon­si­bil­i­ty already placed on both inter­nal and exter­nal pub­li­ca­tions, and it is incum­bent upon every busi­ness per­son, mar­keter, and dis­trib­u­tor to ensure ful­ly acces­si­ble PDFs in com­pli­ance with Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

This course will:

Explain the require­ments of Section 508 rel­e­vant to the pro­duc­tion of PDF doc­u­ments.

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